Redownloading Hinge

Frank Carellini

                    green flags i      look for                    /  runs on theesplanade               and golden doodles /                     /  ways iwind down are                                   dim sum      and sapporoon draft             /   my friends would say i am /      reallyobsessed with paul hollywood  /  i spend too much timewith          /  caption this                              photo /                           venus warns adonis                  not to go               boar-hunting  /  weirdest gift i have ever               received: baptism  /  unusual skills      really               obsessed with paul hollywood’s  /  handshake                        what advice do your friends go to you               for: don’t go boar-hunting                       / but adonis goes boar hunting                                      anyway                       \  and venus mourns him shortly                before swiping                                             right          on mars

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FRANK CARELLINI lives and works in poetry and visual formats.

Spring 2025 | Vol. 8

Florida

Florida Atlantic University

Editors in Chief - Sarah V. Dumitrascu / Sierra Yetka

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Visual Art Editor -  Brooke Burns

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Swamp Ape Review is a national literary journal founded and produced by the MFA in creative writing students at Florida Atlantic University. Our yearly print and online issues feature fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and swamp–our fifth category for works that defy genre.

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